Shannon Pena, LCMHC

Shannon Pena is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, career questions, ADHD, relationship concerns, parenting strain, and life changes. Shannon often works with young adults and people facing workplace or vocational challenges.

Shannon takes a person-centered approach, meaning she starts by listening and tailoring sessions to each person's needs. She looks at the whole situation before choosing ways to work together. Goals are set with the client and reviewed over time so progress is clear.

Sessions may include talking through current problems, building coping skills, and sometimes short homework between meetings. Shannon has experience supporting people with Autism Spectrum-related needs, intellectual disability, and developmental concerns, alongside common issues like anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue.

Her background includes counseling across adjustment, career, vocational, behavioral, emotional, and social concerns. Over eight years she has worked with adolescents, children, and adults with disabilities, though her primary experience is with young adults.

Shannon asks for open and honest participation in sessions and aims to match her approach to each person. That collaborative attitude guides how she plans sessions, sets goals, and decides on any practical exercises or homework.

Using a person-centered approach in online therapy

Shannon practices client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and helping people set their own goals. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, and navigating life changes because it prioritizes the person's perspective and choices.

She also takes an integrative stance, drawing on different techniques where they fit the individual. That means the therapist adapts methods to each client's needs rather than following a single fixed plan. For issues like career decisions, ADHD, or parenting strain, this flexibility lets sessions focus on practical steps and skills that matter to the person.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help clients identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as progress is made. This is a collaborative process that depends on the client's needs, preferences, and feedback.

The original biography does not list specific online or phone formats, so confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, avoid travel time, and keep momentum between meetings. They also allow the therapist to use brief check-ins, structured skill practice, or traditional longer sessions depending on what works best.